London Spin - Pure Quality Journalism?

I am sure I am almost certainly alone in wondering what happened to London Spin. Although the very personification of averageness, it did nevertheless make for an occasionally amusing and informative read. The libertarian attitude adopted to comment moderation in particular made the website always worth a couple of minutes, as did the names adopted by the pure quality journalists who contributed to it. This was particularly the case when CF Staffordshire's favourite blogger, Harry Cole, decided to turn his focus onto the real big issue of the day – the Ed University Rector elections. For a short time, London Spin was the best CF website on the internet.......what a depressing thought that is.

And then it was gone...into the ether...off to the great blog heaven in the sky. Most people probably are not bothered by this on the basis I suspect its readership could be packed into a phone box. Yet just like TBG, it went without any explanation...

That was until Recess Monkey posted a theory on his website that suggested London Spin had made a huge mistake in assuming Carla Jones was a journalist. You might recall that LondonSpin put something up suggesting Carla Jones was a journalist from the Daily Mirror who had taken to befriending CF members in the hope of finding another Matthew Lewis story. The blogpost went around like bloggersphere like wildfire. Tory Bear run the Curious Case of Carla Jones piece, CF reps and CCHQ officials sent messages to members pleading for her to be defriended. Even Iain Dale run a piece encouraging us all to bin this particular facebook friend...Recess Monkey however thinks everybody cocked up. Recess Monkey believes Carla Jones was a pseudonym adopted by a CCHQ staffer friend of his and that London Spin got it wrong...

Now, Recess Monkey has a habit of getting this kind of thing wrong (Thatcher is still alive and kicking at the time of writing...). However, if he is correct on this one, then the CF Bloggersphere has committed one big fuck up.

Either way, London Spin is no more........the truth or falsehood of the Recess Monkey story perhaps should determine whether this is a good thing or not. The Tory bloggersphere has remained silent on Hilton's post.........I suspect that will remain unchanged :-)